Confessions of an Astronomer

This hybrid meeting is a light-hearted and personal look at the life of a professional astronomer. In addition to the research and teaching, perhaps surprisingly, it can be packed with ‘interest’ in the widest sense of the word. The talk contains many amusing and exciting anecdotes; from being marooned with a steaming helium dewar in a cablecar in the Pyrenees, flying in an RAF Comet above the North Sea at 45,000ft and many exploits in Hawaii. The talk covers a wide range of astronomy, is lavishly illustrated and contains not a single equation!

Professor Ian Robson is an eminent astrophysicist known as a pioneer of ground-based submillimetre astronomy. In 2024, he received the Service Award from the Royal Astronomical Society for over 50 years of influential contributions to the field.

This hybrid meeting is alsi available via Zoom

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